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Born in Bristol (United Kingdom) in 1984 Rob Sherwood graduated latest year at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, his work is already in several important private collections. After four years of exhibiting in London, Sherwood will show for the first time in Italy, bringing to us his personal approach to painting.

After an attentive investigation of the themes of landscape and perspective, Sherwood's works, shown in the first exhibition space of the gallery, announce the total dispersion of the figurative element on the canvas, in order to release and give space to a new notion of light as a subject that could hold it's own field "somehow transcending any boundaries between the idea of abstract art and representational art" (R.S.). Some examples can be found in works such as "Perfect Sympathy" (2009, oil on canvas, 35x30 cm) or "Some Flee the dream" (2009, oil on canvas, 200x180 cm).

When looking at the work the viewer is faced with a meticulous process of positioning of coloured squares, forming a grid that gives the perception of spatial depth without the aid of perspective. "Each square of colour defies the brush stroke until one is right up to the canvas. Each gesture absorbed into the milieu of squares until the presence of the artist is blurred into a realm of ambiguity". (R.S.)